Tonight at a GDC party hosted by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card, coming next week for $699. Let’s dive right into the specifications!

GTX 1080 Ti

Titan X (Pascal)

GTX 1080

GTX 980 Ti

TITAN X

GTX 980

R9 Fury X

R9 Fury

R9 Nano

GPU

GP102

GP102

GP104

GM200

GM200

GM204

Fiji XT

Fiji Pro

Fiji XT

GPU Cores

3584

3584

2560

2816

3072

2048

4096

3584

4096

Base Clock

1480 MHz

1417 MHz

1607 MHz

1000 MHz

1000 MHz

1126 MHz

1050 MHz

1000 MHz

up to 1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1480 MHz

1733 MHz

1076 MHz

1089 MHz

1216 MHz

-

-

-

Texture Units

224

224

160

176

192

128

256

224

256

ROP Units

88

96

64

96

96

64

64

64

64

Memory

11GB

12GB

8GB

6GB

12GB

4GB

4GB

4GB

4GB

Memory Clock

11000 MHz

10000 MHz

10000 MHz

7000 MHz

7000 MHz

7000 MHz

500 MHz

500 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Interface

352-bit

384-bit G5X

256-bit G5X

384-bit

384-bit

256-bit

4096-bit (HBM)

4096-bit (HBM)

4096-bit (HBM)

Memory Bandwidth

484 GB/s

480 GB/s

320 GB/s

336 GB/s

336 GB/s

224 GB/s

512 GB/s

512 GB/s

512 GB/s

TDP

250 watts

250 watts

180 watts

250 watts

250 watts

165 watts

275 watts

275 watts

175 watts

Peak Compute

10.6 TFLOPS

10.1 TFLOPS

8.2 TFLOPS

5.63 TFLOPS

6.14 TFLOPS

4.61 TFLOPS

8.60 TFLOPS

7.20 TFLOPS

8.19 TFLOPS

Transistor Count

12.0B

12.0B

7.2B

8.0B

8.0B

5.2B

8.9B

8.9B

8.9B

Process Tech

16nm

16nm

16nm

28nm

28nm

28nm

28nm

28nm

28nm

MSRP (current)

$699

$1,200

$599

$649

$999

$499

$649

$549

$499

The GTX 1080 Ti looks a whole lot like the TITAN X launched in August of last year. Based on the 12B transistor GP102 chip, the new GTX 1080 Ti will have 3,584 CUDA core with a 1.60 GHz Boost clock. That gives it the same processor count as Titan X but with a slightly higher clock speed which should make the new GTX 1080 Ti slightly faster by at least a few percentage points and has a 4.7% edge in base clock compute capability. It has 28 SMs, 28 geometry units, 224 texture units.

Interestingly, the memory system on the GTX 1080 Ti gets adjusted – NVIDIA has disabled a single 32-bit memory controller to give the card a total of 352-bit wide bus and an odd-sounding 11GB memory capacity. The ROP count also drops to 88 units. Speaking of 11, the memory clock on the G5X implementation on GTX 1080 Ti will now run at 11 Gbps, a boost available to NVIDIA thanks to a chip revision from Micron and improvements to equalization and reverse signal distortion.

The TDP of the new part is 250 watts, falling between the Titan X and the GTX 1080. That’s an interesting move considering that the GP102 was running at 250 watts with identical to the Titan product. The cooler has been improved compared to the GTX 1080, offering quieter fan speeds and lower temperatures when operating at the same power envelope.

Performance estimates from NVIDIA put the GTX 1080 Ti about 35% faster than the GTX 1080, the largest “kicker performance increase” that we have seen from a flagship Ti launch.

Pricing is going to be set at $699 so don't expect to find this in any budget builds. But for the top performing GeForce card on the market, it's what we expect. It should be on virtual shelves starting next week.

(Side note, with the GTX 1080 getting a $100 price drop tonight, I think we'll find this new lineup very compelling to enthusiasts.)

NVIDIA did finally detail its tiled caching rendering technique. We'll be diving more into that in a separate article with a little more time for research.

One more thing…

In another interesting move, NVIDIA is going to be offering “overclocked” versions of the GTX 1080 and GTX 1060 with +1 Gbps memory speeds. Partners will be offering them with some undisclosed price premium.

I don’t know how much performance this will give us but it’s clear that NVIDIA is preparing its lineup for the upcoming AMD Vega release.

And you just know they were pissed that AMD didn't reveal much more about Vega today. Which, to be honest, kind of puts the ball back in Raja's court and that's an enviable position to be in, although Nvidia is going to sell a heck of a lot of 1080 and 1080 Ti hardware between now and then.

It doesn't say anything about it other than, if they are targeting 1080 performance, they have to come in under $400 to be competitive in 2H 2017. If they are targeting 1080 Ti performance, they can come in around $500 and the price war will start.

Worst case scenario for AMD is they come out with something that beats 1080 Ti (I think all signs point to this being extremely unlikely, but it would be nice to see) and Volta drops soon after that, shattering any lead they may have.

If that does happen, though, we'd be back in the leap frog scenario we used to see, which was good for competition and the respective egos of AMD and Nvidia fans everywhere.

nvidia can probably just use fully enabled GP102 with very high stock clock. imagine 1.8ghz stock with initial boost to 2.0ghz. overclock headroom will be limited or none existent at all but most people out there only look at "reference performance". even most reviewer still using reference card despite majority people out there buying factory overclocked card. if that still cannot beat vega then nvidia will have to release bigger pascal. remember GP102 is still considered as small at 471mm2 unlike GP100 which measured at 610mm2.

The GP100 is build pure fore compute work, yes it will properly work also well for gaming, but its properly not worth the hassle for nVidia to make a 1090Ti or Titan X+.

As the yields are much lower, and the architecture is not build for gaming, i believe it has not bin optimized for VR or gaming.

Just like Intel Core 7700K is in most cases quicker then a i7-6x00K, the GP100 will properly also have gaming efficient problems, that would properly make it quicker then a GP100, but less then the transistor count would suggest.

why people still going with this? those that buying titan(s) know what they get into. cheaper alternative at the same (or even better performance) will always trail titan release few months later. it has been that way since 2013.

I think I was the only one predicting the 1080ti will be similar to the Titan x. To make enthusiast and gamers believe they are getting a bargain meanwhile this was Nvidia's plan the past 2 generations.

No, you weren't, not by a mile. Everyone with a brain saw this coming. Intel does it, Apple does it, Tesla does it, Samsung does it, Yamaha does it - everyone tries to do it! It's basic economies of scale.

Release an expensive, high end product with decent margin while yields are low and demand is high. Build up cash and refine the process. When demand slows down and margins and yields are higher, release the refined product for less money to drive up demand and sell volume.

This is the third generation of nvidia using the same exact playbook. Why does no one understand that this is just good business?

Most tech sites said it was going to be cut down chip lol with performance sitting between 1080 and Titan x. I'm not saying it's not clever for the business aspect. As a consumer I care less of the profits. Only apple and Nvidia trolls care about profits and if you are a shareholder. Some neive consumers believe that the pricing is actually a bargain meanwhile it's actually the monopolied price Nvidia set.

I'll expect to see some competition between AMD and NVidia.
If they had to use the performance of a titan X for the ti and then price it at $699, you can assume than Vega top of the line will be slightly slower than the titan X /1080ti (5%) for $50 to $80 less. (And do better with like 5% to 10% with Vulcan or DX12 games)
Which is not that impressive for a long awaited card...

This is simply amazing. AMD outdone itself. They basically forced noVideo/nGreedia to spill out all of their beans, while AMD itself only shown /Ve/Ga/'s performance improvements, new technologies, and the actual name of the card. noVideo couldn't handle the pressure and not only lowered 1080's price, but also eagerly jumped out with pricing of 1080Ti. All AMD needs to do now to completely obliterate noVideo, is just release /Ve/Ga/ at ~400$, because /Ve/Ga/ already performs better than 1080. And now literally nothing stops AMD from doing it. Just that one thing and nothing else. And AMD has all the time on their hands, due to the release being slated for summer. Bravo, AMD. Bravo. I applaud while standing. We all do. What a truly great time to be alive as a hardcore PC enthusiast in general and a PC user in overall. Glorious. Astounding. Excellent. Magnificent. Fabulous. Awesome. Marvelous. Fantastic. Perfect.

Yeah but what will the profit margins be on Vega at $400 with expensive HBM2? This is a repeat of Fury launch all over again. That's what AMD gets for being late to the dinner table again. Scraps and leftovers.

Maybe AMD will scam enough people into buying with their canned benchmarks again.

I might be mistaken on this, but I believe it has to do with the number of ROPs. Take a look at the titan xp, it has 96 ROPs and 12Gb of vram, which equals to 1GB of ram per 8 ROPs. so, 1080TI has 88 ROPS, so 88/8 = 11, so half life 3 confirmed.

Looks like Intel & Nvidia can just stop their price gouging and all of AMD's competitive advantage is gone. AMD might have a better solution than Intel but with this slow release of their competitive $200 parts is it going to be to late? That's like 6 months away, no?

With the way some new games look, I see no need to pay $700 for a video card just to play a game that is built for the console gamer. I have a gtx 980ti and an ultra wide monitor. I can play most games at ultra settings without going below 30 fps. The gaming industry needs to catch up with the technology.

We are playing at 144Hz now and need a constant 144FPS. I can pull that off in Overwatch pretty easily, but I do have to turn a few things down for my 980Ti. WIll be happy to run an even larger resolution at a solid 144FPS for $700.

AMD just announced that RX Vega will support packed math. It means twice the performance of the TitanX (Pascal) in single precision FP math. Considering also the new Bethesda-AMD deal, the 1080TI will get it's ass kicked in many upcoming games.